Quotes About Modesty

I don't know where this glamorous image and all came from. I don't find myself glamorous or bold.

To me, looking glamorous on screen has never been about skin show.

I'm very simple. I'm not for the flashes, I'm not for glitz and glamour, you know.

I've never been a much of a glamour girl.

I don't go for glamour roles.

I can dress down, but I can't dress up. I'm not a great one for glitter.

All glory to God. I'm nothing.

I've done golf and fitness shoots, but in those I'm still fairly covered up.

I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.

As a matter of fact , personally I am ok with exposing, as long as it is done in good taste.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

The belly is the reason why man does not mistake himself for a god.

They want more, they learn to make claims, the tribute of respect is at last felt to be well-nigh galling; rivalry for rights, indeed actual strife itself, would be preferred: in a word, woman is losing modesty. And let us immediately add that she is also losing taste. She is unlearning to fear man: but the woman who unlearns to fear sacrifices her most womanly instincts.

Honest things, like honest men, do not carry their reasons in their hands like that. It is indecent to show all five fingers. What must first be proved is worth little.

When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame.

Semua perempuan yang baik menemukan bahwa ilmu pengetahuan adalah bertentangan dengan kesopanan mereka. Ia membuat mereka merasa seakanakan ada orang yang ingin melihat dibalik kulit mereka--atau yang lebih parah! Dibalik pakaian dan kosmetik mereka...

One of the psychological reasons why decent people shrink from vulgar sex discussion is because by its very nature it is not a communicable kind of knowledge... It is too sacred to be profaned.

Humility does not mean a submissiveness, a passiveness, a willingness to be walked on, or a desire to live in the doghouse. Humility is a virtue by which we recognize ourselves as we really are, not as we would like to be in the eyes of the public; not as our press notices say we are, but as we are in the sight of God when we examine our conscience.

Voulez-vous qu'on pense et qu'on dise du bien de vous, n'en dites point vous-même

I do not like to influence others. I would not like to become famous. I have done nothing deserving of acknowledgment in my life.2 When Kahlo made this statement she had already produced virtually all the iconic paintings for which she is well known – indeed, venerated – today.

I do not like to influence others. I would not like to become famous. I have done nothing deserving of acknowledgment in my life.

I have never been wired to be front and centre of spotlight and ready to dance.

Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.

It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so.